Sentences with phrase «critical disdain»

A veteran organizer of cutting - edge exhibitions, she built her career in part through her insistence on championing the medium, even — or perhaps especially — through its perennial periods of unpopularity and critical disdain.

«Mass critical disdain, more like,» I said to myself, chuckling a bit at my master - level wordsmithery.

Filmed (with great political difficulty and necessitating much censorship) in China, it was an ambitious, large - scale production overseen by Raffaella de Laurentiis and directed by the Canadian Daryl Duke; but when it was finally released the film was met with almost universal critical disdain and proved to be a box office disaster.

Despite critical disdain for its chaotically amped - up special effects and paper - thin story, The Mummy Returns went on to become one of the biggest hits of the summer.

Not exact matches

In some respects, Altizer's disdain for the historical - critical method is equal to that of Barth.

The radicals, following the Barthian disdain for an exclusive use of the historical - critical method, think that it is the overwhelming acceptance of this method as a valid means of investigating reality that is indicative of the death of God in our time.

Evangelicals who want to restore true worship must therefore abandon their disdain of the historical and return to a critical examination of the worship of the church in every period of history.

He said it was clear that the kind of disdain for human life which the PDP exhibited in its incautious statement is the same reason the girls were kidnapped in the first instance, and for which then PDP - controlled Federal Government took what seemed an eternity before even acknowledging the abduction — thus losing critical time for their rescue.

One can even say that it is underlying disdain for the very kids in his district that is a critical reason why he is such an abject failure as a school leader: If you don't care for kids, you can not do the hard work of transforming the quality of instruction, curricula and leadership that is needed to give kids cultures of genius in which to succeed.

These global policy links are tangible and to decide that they are irrelevant to Australian teachers is at best, treating them with disdain, and at worst as those who are incapable of critical judgement.

Now, given the state of our badly run school system (as opposed to educational system) and the disdain for critical thinking, philosophy, and scientific methods, should anyone be surprised?

Three years ago I was critical of Alex Steffen at Worldchanging and David Roberts at Grist for being so negative about Earth Day, for acting like Marvin the Paranoid Android with their ennui and disdain.